sail lacings
I scanned a page on lacing sails to spars from the catboat bulletin,
and added it at the bottom of the mast-stepping & tabernacle page:
http://www.geocities.com/pvanderwaart/cb_scans.html
You can judge for youself whether the Mrs. Robinson technique is
required for any of these. However, somewhere in the catboat
association lore there is a comment by sailmaker Ike Manchester to
the effect that since the catboat mast is so fat, there is really no
harm in having a couple of inches of open space between the mast and
the sail. So if you use the Bolger-figure-eight method (or the
somewhat similar method c in the scan), you don't need to make them
so tight that you have the binding problem. Of course, you do need
adequate luff tension to avoid scalloping.
Peter
and added it at the bottom of the mast-stepping & tabernacle page:
http://www.geocities.com/pvanderwaart/cb_scans.html
You can judge for youself whether the Mrs. Robinson technique is
required for any of these. However, somewhere in the catboat
association lore there is a comment by sailmaker Ike Manchester to
the effect that since the catboat mast is so fat, there is really no
harm in having a couple of inches of open space between the mast and
the sail. So if you use the Bolger-figure-eight method (or the
somewhat similar method c in the scan), you don't need to make them
so tight that you have the binding problem. Of course, you do need
adequate luff tension to avoid scalloping.
Peter